"There is something silly about grown men and……" — John Ralston Saul
"There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting."
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57 Quotes by John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul has 57 quotes on this site.
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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy.…
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An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and,…
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The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need…
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy…
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A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to…
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument…
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The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of…
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are…
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Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such…
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Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
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All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it…
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In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism…
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More Bean Quotes
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I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both…
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When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -…
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My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government,…
— John Bolton
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It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action.…
— John F. Kennedy
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to…
— Will Rogers
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Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me.…
— Wentworth Miller
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By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is…
— Rabih Alameddine
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I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds…
— Heidi Klum
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Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.
— Tahereh Mafi
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